IMD 2013 - Calling All Applicants

@Mawaz: congrats

didn't know that wait listed candidates can hear back within few days...

At our assessment day we couldn't attend a class and neither meet the students (they had some kind of presentation to prepare). I would be intertested to hear the feedback from other group who were interviewed on the 20th and 23rd!!!

PS: need to shake up this forum a little

vd9, I sent an e-mail to Marine and Lucy and asked them to pass on my contact details to fellow candidates. We then got in touch via e-mail and co-ordinated from there. It's much easier as many people don't seem to use gmatclub. You may want to do something similar. Both Marine and Lucy are really responsive and accommodating even though I suspect it does cause them some extra work.

This forum indeed needs some shaking....
Request to the candidates who have been already through the assessment day:If possible, please describe your experience in detail like few people did last year and a year before...it will be really useful for other hopefuls.........................

When is the next deadline to apply? I didn't apply so far, but am very interested in IMD.

Check this out - imd-guide-111725.html

i attended the "assessment day" on the 23rd....there were about 6 of us (all male) representing 5 different nationalities.....for the interview and assessment - all i can say is check out posts by last years applicants ...they are really detailed, comprehensive and describe the entire experience quite well......the interview is very informal and IMD does a great job to thoroughly read your application and in some cases, will have specific questions regarding your work experience or app essays......make sure you know your app inside out and ofcourse your motivations and reasoning to go to (specifically) IMD......

Personally, before the assessment I was really stressed about the impromptu presentation but it's not that bad at all......again as you probably already know, the focus of this presentation is your communication, presentation and logical skills.....you dont have to be a subject matter expert in business to be able to tackle it.....

make sure you read the prepared case study a few times and think about the kind of questions that might come up.........i know all this is really generic advice but again, check out last year's posts and you'll find some comprehensive advice from the current students.....

we attended Prof. Benoit's class (which btw - every alumni I met was raving abt) and it was awesome! he's got a very unique style of teaching and approaching entrepreneurship and there's lots of energy in that auditorium....

Finally, enjoy the day because you get to learn a lot from the 5 or 6 other applicants who are with you and the entire experience is definitely worth the visit......now, hoping it works out for everyone from our assessment day and good luck to the rest of the group!

Just submitted my application.
I hope to have the chance of meeting you during one of the assessment days.

menonvik: can you tell which nationalities??? WIsh you all the best. I hope you get admit call :)

I have applied for the R2 last week.

To answer some concerns from suraabhi about the chances of being accepted if you are Indian. I have to say you have more change to be accepted if you are Indian that if you are French !
Only 3 French (and a half) this year but we have 5 indians + 4 of Indians origin (from UK, Singapore, Canada), it is definitely the biggest group we have here after the chinese (if grouped with Hong Kong and Taiwan).
Hope this helps

Thibaut

ACCEPTED!!!

Just got the call! I interviewed on March 27th.

Looking forward to meeting the other accepted candidates and wishing the best of luck to the other applicants! This is the best feeling of my life so far!

Cheers,
Henrique

Felicitaciones Henrique!

Que bueno!

Waiting for other applicants to report the good news!

Hi All,

i have applied for round 2 for IMD.

My profile - 30/M/720/Indian/ 6yr Corporate Banking Experience.

Looking to becoming an entreprenuer post MBA.

anyone with a similar story.

Thanks

I also got my acceptance call from Lisa, the director of admissions, yesterday April 3rd, after my March 23rd interview. I know that at least 4 of the 6 candidates in our group got their acceptance calls.
Best of luck to everyone

Congratulations!

Hi guys, please post how many people were there in your group and what were their nationalities..It will very helpful information that help many others